Tag Archives: Jim Woodard

First impressions are the key to successfully marketing a home. More homeowners are recognizing this fact and taking action to maximize their home’s first-impression appeal. Home staging is becoming an essential part of a marketing program for residential real estate. ...

The office market is recovering nicely, particularly in areas with much high-tech business activity. Those technology-dominated markets are making the most headway, according to a new report from Reis Inc., a real estate research firm. The top-performing office markets tend ...

Spring is the most popular time for homeowners to launch or plan for remodeling projects. Many owners are opting for projects that will satisfy their personal needs for a growing family, while others want to enhance their home’s value. Nearly ...

In recent years, there has been a substantial increase in the number of individual and family renters. There has also been a steady rise in rents. Those rental costs have been rising more rapidly than household incomes, thus making it ...

Many leading analysts are now predicting a robust home-selling year in 2015. Here’s a quote from Len Kiefer, deputy chief economist at Freddie Mac: “This month kicks off spring home-buying season. Between now and the end of June, we’ll see ...

Surprisingly, historically low mortgage rates recently dropped a bit lower. At the same time, mortgages are becoming more available to consumers. Mortgage availability increased in February, according to the Mortgage Credit Availability Index, a report from the Mortgage Bankers Association, ...

The key factors are now in place for exceptional growth in housing this year, leading analysts and housing organizations have reported. The economy started the year on an upbeat note, and it’s expected to continue to stay strong in 2015, ...

First, a bit of clarification. Boomerangs are young people who have moved out of their parents’ home only to move back in. Millennials are those born during the 1980s and 1990s. In this report, we are focusing on those born ...

Markets throughout the country are reporting increasingly strong gains in housing activity, according to reports from leading analysts. One of those reports shows markets in 63 of the approximately 350 metro areas nationwide have returned to or exceeded their last ...